The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VIII : Books 28–32

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VIII : Books 28–32Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of

The introduction covers the life of Lucan and the literary revival of Nero's time

students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary

the ideal of heroic life

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along with the ancients’ accounts of their lives and works

Eusebius of Caesarea (ca

Statesman)

his guilt or innocence of the crimes for which he was executed

the course is based on a keen understanding of what pupils find difficult

adapting Homer’s Odyssey into Saturnian verse

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